With recipes passing between communities, across borders and down the generations, many herbs found in medieval remedies such as ginger and lavender are still commonly used today. An archaeological find in southwark, england of a round, tin box still had soft ointment in it which was presumed to be a face cream. The ingredients were animal fat, tin oxide and starch- all basic …

The ointment is placed in an egg shell and dissolved on the fire. And then, with that ointment, the patient's member should be exposed to the fire or to the sun. This is a medieval recipe for an ointment to cure headaches and pains in the joints: Take equal amounts of radish, bishopwort, garlic, wormwood, helenium, cropleek and hollowleek. Here are recipes from several medieval english manuscripts and collections, each in its original language accompanied with a literal translation, and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe …

Here are recipes from several medieval english manuscripts and collections, each in its original language accompanied with a literal translation, and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe …